If you had a time machine and you could republish a claude generated article about some interesting tech topic to 2010 I'm sure it would get ok engagement.
To me the issue is that everything becomes written in the same style pattern. I don't know why but if I spot it I wince internally and immediately skim the post or just outright stop reading. A large part of it is overexposure. For me it's made browsing the internet quite uncomfortable since it's unavoidable.
I mainly spend my online time in group chats these days.
>I think most of the substantive criticism of Zuckerberg has been about burning funds.
I'm not in the org myself I know some Meta SWEs tangentially. My understanding is that the biggest criticism is just the chaos of it all. Jumping constantly from one thing to another like headless chickens and accomplishing nothing.
It created an environment where it's kind of impossible to plan and progress your career.
I was promised 10000 AI scientists curing cancer and solving fusion but all I got was unemployment and short videos of fruit people cheating on their partner.
I’m worried some of the people leading this race will try to entangle the institutional financial giants or even the government to ensure some sort of too big to fail scenario.
There’s an unprecedented amount of money at stake. And the admin has never been so openly and blatantly for sale.
Wait a few months and a competitor will release a similarly powerful model with less guardrails, if they steal sufficient market share Anthropic will reverse policies.
This is why I’m immensely hoping the Chinese don’t stop with their open sourced local models. None of these companies are your friend.
Nah, I think AI has fundamentally changed the perception of the value of most tech labour in the eyes of the people running the show.
The end result of it is that the average dev position becomes seen as dispensable, competition goes up, workload goes up, compensation stagnates.
Being able to escape the rat race and retire is a privilege though. The rest of the rats gotta keep running faster and faster just to stay in the same place.
The only thing that's really being enfranchised by AI is my stock portfolio.
I was promised cancer cures and longevity medicine but all I got is a way bigger workload for the same pay.
401k has never been better though. College grads don't have one yet so I can see why they're grumpy.
The same type of executive who will instil a tokenmaxxing mandate will be the same type of executive who decides layoffs are the best way to improve margins when the token bill comes due with no revenue to back it up.
Why are some people so pressed about this decision? From my point of view, if you're truly a vibe code enthusiast wouldn't you be able to just vibe code your own better yt-dlp (or fork the existing one and do whatever you need to do with it)?
I think people have stopped giving tech companies the benefit of the doubt, unlike the start of the social media era and the smartphone era.
Both of those things did transform life & culture but mostly to the benefit of their makers. People now expect the same from AI and for better or worse most of the CEOs are not even pretending this time. The most they do is some vague hope that it'll all workout magically somehow.
Extremely cynical take, but they're probably being honest. They wanna serve humanity. But maybe they only consider a small part of the population to be relevant humans.
>Solution: managers need to ask 'how does $THING_YOU_MADE actually work?'.
"Claude please tell me how $THING_YOU_MADE works in easy to understand language so I can explain it to my manager."
Memorise that and there you go. If the manager doesn't know how it works and has to trust the engineer, what are the chances that a memorised articulate explanation will satisfy them?
The issue (like most corpo issues) is one of incentives. Everyone's incentivised to do more work more quickly for a cheaper price. It's very fast to generate output but very slow to properly vet it.
What could change the current dynamics is if generation becomes way more expensive. Maybe that will happen because the token economy starts being subsidised? Maybe someone will eventually establish a monopoly on the agentic coding market and will start squeezing companies dependent on them?
It's just a classic noise problem. For better or worse people are flooding the internet with LLM output and the vast majority is not worth reading. People will focus on cheap "tells" to judge what's worth spending their time reading.
Cancer is too broad of a term.
Some cancers like Hodgkin's lymphoma or testicular cancer respond extremely well to treatment.
Some cancers are caused by cell damage from viruses such as HPV and can be prevented by vaccines.
I get the pessimism because "curing cancer" can essentially be interpreted as "curing aging" but progress is being made.
To me the issue is that everything becomes written in the same style pattern. I don't know why but if I spot it I wince internally and immediately skim the post or just outright stop reading. A large part of it is overexposure. For me it's made browsing the internet quite uncomfortable since it's unavoidable.
I mainly spend my online time in group chats these days.